Hi everyone, Magnus was very kind to implement an idea that consists of two parts:
1. use of WebP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP) instead of PNG/JPEG for thumbnails in Wikipedia articles 2. use of Data-URIs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme) to inline incluse those thumbnails. The experiment can be watched using Chrome and Opera browsers at http://toolserver.org/~magnus/wp_data_url.php?lang=en&title=Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer&webp=1 Firefox and other Data-URI capable but currently WebP incapable browsers can watch the second part of the experiment at http://toolserver.org/~magnus/wp_data_url.php?lang=en&title=Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer Base64 encoding has a ~1/3 overhead. This overhead is reduced when the server sends out gzip files. Mathias _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
